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Many children are being let down by the education system as the rise in autism and behavioural disorders strains the resources of mainstream and special schools.Ann Arnold follows the story of 11-year-old twins Jake and Cooper, and finds serious shortfalls in the schooling options for children ...

Members of the University of the Third Age Bairnsdale will meet today to discuss the future of its classes and whether it will lobby the government to keep its base at the buildings of Community College East Gippsland. U3A has been told it will have till the end of the year to vacate the premises after ...

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We think of ourselves as a multicultural country, but not necessarily a multilingual one. Yet, around 300 languages are spoken in Australia on any given day. A new five-part series called exploring multilingual Australia airs this Saturday on RN's Earshot. It features the voices of many ...

The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability opens its first public hearings in Townsville today. The Commission will spend the week focusing on learning and education issues facing Australians with a disability. The hearings coincide with ...

Could Australia capitalise more on the potential of its pre-schoolers? Australia's first economic analysis of early childhood education in the year before school has found, for every dollar invested, the community receives two dollars value. The analysis, conducted by Price Waterhouse ...

About 40 per cent of the general population goes on to participate in some form of higher education, such as TAFE or university. But only one to three per cent of those who have spent time in foster care end up in higher education. Life Matters speaks to care leaver Danny Hoekstra, an apprentice ...

The latest Naplan results show an achievement gap between city students and students in regional, remote and rural Australia, particularly for those in year 12. Philip Roberts is an Associate Professor of Rural Education at the University of Canberra and Richard Finter is the Relieving ...